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KENNESAW, GA—One year after being rolled out worldwide, the installed base of Heidelberg's Quicksetter 300E and 400E polyester computer-to-plate systems has exceeded 100 machines in the United States alone. (www.heidelberg.com)

BOULDER, CO—IBM reports that Xerox Corp. has joined the AFP Color Consortium, bringing its total membership to 18 companies. The consortium is working to bring reliability, data integrity, quality and consistency to high-volume color printing environments using the printer architecture. (www.xerox.com/ www.ibm.com/printers)